1
Portfolios%3D%22609%22%20and%20Disp_Obj_Type%3D%22Drawing%22%20and%20Sort_Artist%3D%22Bragdon,%20Claude%20Fayette%22
Drawing
Design for Decorative Lighting
Claude Fayette Bragdon, (Oberlin, OH, 1866 - 1946, New York, NY)
Bragdon, Claude Fayette
United States
1866 - 1946
Male
16 1/2 x 11 5/8 in. (41.9 x 29.5 cm)
.
.
.
Ink
Ink
1920-1929
1920
1929
1900-2000, 20th century, by Rochester artists, drawing, lights, line, shape, western New York
Drawing
As an architect, Bragdon had long been frustrated by the lack of a modern architectural ornament style free from cultural and historical associations. Like philosophers and artists before him, he sought a sacred geometry of cosmic significance and harmonious design. In his 1915 book Projective Ornament he outlined a universal system of design based on numbers and geometry abstracted from nature. Bragdon’s mystical beliefs influenced his use of the fourth dimension in creating his ornament. He believed in the fourth dimension as a mystical hyperspace that explained some of the mysteries of life and the afterlife. Bragdon based his new ornamental style on a complex system of projecting and manipulating two-dimensional shapes such as squares and triangles into four-dimensional shapes such as tesseracts and pentahedroids.
Claude Bragdon was a prolific writer who often illustrated his books with his own projective ornament designs. This design begins the chapter “The Eternal Feminine” in Old Lamps for New: The Ancient Wisdom in the Modern World (1925). Bragdon envisioned projective ornament as a universal design system for all facets of life from architectural environments to book jackets, from clothing to lamps.
[Gallery label text, 2010]
lower rightlower left
1944.7
item
Memorial Art Gallery
9/8/1999
44.7SL1
slide
2 x 2
00/00/00
http://127.0.0.1:5000/Graphics/blank.gif
glossy
8x10
00/00/00
http://127.0.0.1:5000/Graphics/blank.gif
44.7DI1
digital image
00/00/00
http://127.0.0.1:5000/Media/images/44.7_A1.jpg
44.7DI#2
digital image
6/8/2010
http://127.0.0.1:5000/Media/images/44.7_A2.jpg